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Congress and the Administration should improve the visa issuancesystem by creating a risk management system to separate low-riskapplicants from high-risk applicants; defining more clearly theroles of consular officers, visa security officers, and otherpersonnel involved in the visa review process and enhancing theirtraining; expanding the Visa Security Program; and establishing avisa ombudsman authority.

The President’s budget request would maintain homeland security funding at current levels, but the budget request would increase funding for several programs that add little additional security while cutting others that could significantly enhance U.S. homeland security. Congress should use the budget process to refocus the Department of Homeland Security on its primary objective of improving security. Counterproductive homeland security grants to state and local governments should be eliminated or curtailed and redesigned. Conversely, Congress could significantly enhance security by signifi...

It is crucial that Congress focus on and prioritize DHS spending.

World will put their hands of criminals. this administration can fix it in 30 days. all they have to do is brush off the trump policies and reimplement them. they say our policies are in inhumane in that administration. illegal immigration was down 83%. 83% less people were coming. how many women weren't being raped and how many people weren't dying and how many migrants didn't die? at what point do we make common sense decisions to save lives and protect our national security? you can't have national security without border security. we have the database is in place and tsa, no fly list, visa...

The admittance of Taiwan into the VWP represents a good first step to improving the program, but more should be done.